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Blood
Blood is synonymous with "life"
The present psychical, "natural," or human body of " flesh and
blood " has " blood " for the life thereof.
But the risen body has no " blood " ; it is
" flesh and bones." Instead of " blood," it has
pneuma for its life.
This pneuma
gives life immortal and eternal to the risen body.
Therefore it is called "life-giving
pneuma" (not
life-giving "blood").
What the " blood" is to the human body,
pneuma will be to the resurrection
body.
" Blood " is the life of the human body, and therefore there can
be no immortality for the body " except it die": except it gives
up its blood. Hence the necessity of the Saviour's " shedding of
blood."
This was necessary to the laying down of the life of the " first
Adam," so that, in resurrection, He might become not again " a
living soul " but, instead, "the second man," "a life-giving,"
as ' the last Adam " Man, as man, has nothing to give or to get,
in "exchange for his life," or" living soul."
But for those " in Christ" there will be a blessed and glorious
" exchange.
" This exchange will be " the gift
of God " ; for " God
giveth it a body, as it hath pleased Him " (1 Cor. 15:38).
Spiritually Dead = dead to God's Word
Genesis 9:4 life = living soul.
Blood = This is the essence and foundation of the doctrine of
substitution and atonement = "life for life",
"The wages of sin is death" (Rom 6:23) and "without shedding of
blood [and thus giving up the life] is no remission" (Heb 9:22).
Genesis 9:5 "blood = that is = your lives.
Roman 8:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
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God proved His great love for us even while we
are sinners, by giving His only begotten Son for
our redemption.
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Are we truly grateful?
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Are you?
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through Him.
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If we have this hope and faith, we are saved
through Jesus Christ.
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Even though we sins in the flesh, if we believe
in Him and love Him, He lifts the burden of sin
from us when we repent.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death
of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
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If God loved us that much, because all have
sinned.
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How much more now are we saved by His life?
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The elect who stand on the side of God will be
saved, and you who study the word of God and
have the deeper understanding are the elect.
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He even is in you and you are in Him.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
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We have received the atonement, or
reconciliation, you might say, through Jesus
Christ.
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by
sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
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Not forgetting that Lucifer brought sin to Adam,
what it's saying here is that after
Adam, all sinned; then age and disease came into
being and men knew death, because all have sinned.
Romans 8:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came
upon all men unto justification of life.
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Now the deeper students, who study the plan of
God as it was before the foundation of this
world, find in the scripture that it is God's
plan that all men should have the right to
choose between God and Lucifer.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the
obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where
sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
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Without the law, one cannot break the law, but
with the breaking of God's law, sin abounds; yet
through Christ, there is forgiveness of sin and
you see and you see His precious grace in the
gift He offers all men.
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The
hour is coming, and now is, when
the dead shall
hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that
hear shall live.
Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the
spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was
full of bones,
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Ezekiel 1:3 The word of the Lord came expressly
unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the
land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and
the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
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The midst of the valley which was full of bones = these bones are
the whole house of Israel, Therefore prophesy and say unto them
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were
very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
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Ezekiel 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man,
these bones are the whole house of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our
hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will
open your graves, and cause you to come up out
of your graves, and bring you into the land of
Israel.
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John 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead,
and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth
whom he will.
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Rom 4:17 (As it is written, I have made thee a
father of many nations,) before him whom he
believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and
calleth those things which be not as though they
were.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered,
O Lord God, thou knowest.
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John 6:5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and
saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto
Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these
may eat?
6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself
knew what he would do.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O
ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
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Ezekiel 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man,
these bones are the whole house of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our
hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will
open your graves, and cause you to come up out
of your graves, and bring you into the land of
Israel.
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Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together
with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and
sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as
the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out
the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy
chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide
thyself as it were for a little moment, until
the indignation be over past.
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John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The
hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall
hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that
hear shall live.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath
to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and
cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and
ye
shall know that I am the Lord.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a
noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his
bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and
the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man,
and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds,
O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them,
and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of
Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our
hope is lost: we
are cut off for our parts.
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These bones are the whole house of
Israel
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up
out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves,
O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place
you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it,
and performed it, saith the Lord.
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Shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live
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How did they live?
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Prophesy unto them = teach My Word
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Ezekiel 37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of
Israel from among the heathen, whither they be
gone, and will gather them on every side, and
bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land
upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall
be king to them all: and they shall be no more
two nations, neither shall they be divided into
two kingdoms any more at all:
15 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it,
For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and
for all the house of Israel his companions:
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For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph,
the stick of Ephraim
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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